The miniseries comprises three minute episodes. A Very English Scandal is a British three part television miniseries based on John Prestons book of the same name. The series premiered on BBC One on May and on Amazon Prime on June. The series is a dramatisation of the Jeremy Thorpe scandal in Britain,A Very English Scandal Season 2 DVD in which MP Jeremy Thorpe was tried and acquitted of conspiring to murder his former lover, Norman Scott. The series was written by Russell T Davies and directed by Stephen Frears,A VeryEnglish Scandal Season 2 with actor Hugh Grant starring as Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Scott. The BBC television drama was first announced on May.